{"id":59003,"date":"2013-11-06T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/videos\/515028-how-to-semi-bluff-poker-tutorials\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:10:17","slug":"515028-how-to-semi-bluff-poker-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/videos\/515028-how-to-semi-bluff-poker-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Semi-Bluff in Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Semi-Bluff | Poker Tutorials\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tICChCtAhXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Transcript<\/h3>\n<p>Hey I&#8217;m Mickey Numbers. I&#8217;m a professional poker player and I&#8217;m going to explain semi-bluffing to you. A semi-bluff is an aggressive action that is taken without having a strong made hand but rather having a draw, like an open ended straight draw or a flush draw; a hand that has a lot of value in that it&#8217;s going to improve a significant amount of the time on the next streak. So if we&#8217;re on the flop, it&#8217;s going to improve to a strong made hand on the turn regularly. <\/p>\n<p> If we were on the turn, it would improve to a strong made hand on the river regularly. Typically, semi-bluffing can be thought of taking aggressive action when you have 8 outs or more. A semi-bluff is significantly different from a stone cold bluff, which is a bluff with no hand no draw. Take a look at this situation where you have 8-3 offsuit on a board of 9-7-King, 2 to the flush. If you bet at this pot or raise a bet on this flop and you fail and your opponent chooses to continue in the hand, 8-3 offsuit could often be drawing slim or even dead to your opponent&#8217;s hand. However, a hand, like 2-4 of clubs, has a flush draw. <\/p>\n<p> There&#8217;s 13 clubs in the deck; 2 of them are on the board and 2 of them are in your hand. That means that there&#8217;s 9 remaining clubs. When you have 9 clubs to make a flush, you have 9 outs. This is a classic semi-bluffing hand here. Although you have a weak flush draw, flushes are usually strong when you make them using both hole cards. Typically, you want to take those hands to showdown and play a big pot. <\/p>\n<p> So if you take an aggressive action at this flop and your opponent continues in the hand, you&#8217;re not just out of it like you would be 8-3 offsuit, where the overwhelming majority of the time you&#8217;re not going to be able to continue past the turn. In this case, you&#8217;re going to hit a flush on the turn about 18% of the time and when you don&#8217;t, you have another shot to hit it on the river. When you&#8217;re taking aggressive actions at the poker table and you&#8217;re bluffing, ideally, you want to be semi-bluffing, where if your bluff fails, you have a back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript Hey I&#8217;m Mickey Numbers. I&#8217;m a professional poker player and I&#8217;m going to explain semi-bluffing to you. A semi-bluff is an aggressive action that is taken without having a strong made hand but rather having a draw, like an open ended straight draw or a flush draw; a hand that has a lot of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"mai_trending":0,"mai_views":0,"mai_views_updated":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,95],"tags":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post","7":"category-4-dance","8":"category-1199-how-to-play-poker","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}